I am a historian of the Second World War and the aim of this site is to enable others to access some of the research I have carried out over the past few years, and to encourage people to exchange ideas and views about a wide range of subjects relating to the conflict. On this site you will find an oral history archive with transcriptions of many of the interviews I have conducted with veterans of the war from many different countries, and there are also blogs, comment pieces, book reviews, suggested reading, and also contributions from other leading historians in this field.
I hope you find it interesting.

James Holland

Blog - Friday 3rd March 2006

Diary of Writing Italy’s Sorrow

Carlisle, Pennsylvania, March 3, 2006
And another good day.  I also came across some truly staggering statistics about the number of Italian women suffering from some form of VD in 1944.  Not only have I found much good German material, I have also learnt a lot about the state of Southern Italy once the front line had moved northwards – and it was, frankly, desperate.  It’s something I hadn’t really considered before.

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